The Hilarity of Everyday Life

See you next week. Life took over my schedule this week and I was not able to do any writing. I know that I’ve mentioned it before but I believe I have decided to work another dog in addition to my boy, Kuster. That’s next weeks blog. We’ll talk then.

I received an email a few weeks ago that asked about how our trailing dogs follow the correct people. Of course, this would be an interesting thing to go over again it has been awhile. We call this ability to detect one person from another scent discrimination. This also starts getting into the scent theories […]

I spent most of last week at a training for work. My “real” job. The topic you ask? Motivation. That is when it hit me. What a great Search And Rescue Saturday topic. For those that do any type of dog training the key to being successful is knowing how to motivate the dog so […]

Like many others, Team Küster took a day off from both the real-life job and our training schedule to celebrate and relax with friends and family. We also took the time to stop and reflect on our freedom, our great country and everything it stands for. We are truly blessed with opportunities and relationships which […]

First of all, and as many already know our house has one less dog now. We lost our Morgan earlier last week. I would like to thank the readers of TalesAndTails.com for the thoughts and prayers of support through email, Facebook, Instagram, and even “old school” mail. As someone who is extremely private with the exception […]

As most of our fine readers already know the Chief Editor and I have been very involved in our counties 4H dog obedience program for a decade or so. Today I found myself giving one of our students a private lesson. This is a young man who is really working hard with his dog and asked for […]

Today’s Search and Rescue Saturday is really much to do about nothing search and rescue. But, I really wanted to write something and not just say, “See you all next week”. As many of our great readers know it has been a week and a half. We’ve had Morgan’s health issues and continue to have vehicle issues. But, […]

As many of our readers already know the Cheif Editor and I teach at our counties 4H dog obedience class. Last week I found myself having the same conversation with one of the 4H students as I did during an online discussion of clear communication while training search and rescue dogs. Clear communication in my option […]

Since starting Search and Rescue Saturday, I have received many great and wonderful questions. The Tails and Tales blog readers are the best and they are involved. I know that I’ve said this before but it’s really been an experience. Things have been busy with home life, the dogs, training, 4H, and many call outs […]